The noise of the traffic（）Paul from his work.

We forgave her anger because we knew that her father's illness had put her under great （）

The student's first attempt at writing a play was a far（）from the work of Shakespeare.

An explosion is a sudden increase in amount（）

Some say yes and others say no; I don't know （）to follow.

The weakening housing market continued to take its（）on the industry.

She had clearly no（）of doing any work, although she was very well paid.

（）students often find it difficult to live in China at first.

I don't know who on（）stole the diamond last night.

She is very nice, but because she has a（）way of speaking, she is slow in making friends